Tallest Jelly Competition
The Institute of Food Research, in association with the Norfolk Food Festival and the Institute of Physics (www.iop.org), are setting schools a challenge to find out who can make the tallest jelly.
It is REALLY difficult to make a jelly more than 10cm tall due to the weak gel strength. Try it and see for yourself or take a look at our failures. To make it taller you either need to increase the gel strength (in this competition that's cheating) or give the jelly structure using edible materials such as fruit, sponges or pasta. Let your imagination run wild! Food technology, chemistry and engineering come into their own in this test of ingenuity.
Entries are open to any age group and prizes will be awarded for all entries that successfully bring their jellies to the Final on Friday 30th September at The Forum in Norwich. Additional prizes will be awarded to the winners in Primary (up to Yr 6), Secondary (up to Yr 11), 6th Form and an overall prize for the best school. Prizes will also be awarded for the best project design even if ultimately the jelly fails! So remember to bring along your ideas and plans too including design modifications following failures. This can be on a poster, in a project book or as a story board, you choose!
Competition Rules
- The jelly must be made from Hartley's tablet jelly and made up following the directions on the pack
- The finished jelly must be free-standing.
- You must be prepared to arrange to bring your jelly to the Final and unmould it at 11:00 on Friday 30th September in Norwich City Centre (venue - The Forum). Height will be measured 10 minutes after unmoulding
- Everything used in construction must be edible and you should be prepared to eat any part of it!
- No frozen jellies.
- Due to space restrictions entries on the day are limited to 1 team per year group.
- Teams should be of no more than 4 pupils.
- The judge's decision will be final.
Please submit intent of your entries to dee.rawsthorne@nbi.ac.uk by Friday 23rd September and include the name of your school
Email dee.rawsthorne@nbi.ac.uk images of your practice jellies, success and failures, for inclusion on this web site. Don't forget to let us know how tall it is and we can start the competition on line.
...notice how the jelly collapses after the mould
is removed.
Further details from:
Dee Rawsthorne PhD
Outreach Coordinator
Norwich BioScience Institutes
Norwich Research Park, Colney
Norwich. NR4 7UA
Tel: 01603 255017
Email: dee.rawsthorne@nbi.ac.uk
We gratefully acknowledge the support of Premier Foods, who supplied the Jelly.
